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Ore. man released from prison arrested in bank job

EUGENE, Ore.

Authorities say it was a busy morning for a man released from an Oregon state prison. After a bus ride home to Eugene on a state-paid ticket, they say he held up a bank at 10:02 a.m. Tuesday and was back in custody three minutes later.

The Register-Guard reports that 48-year-old Adam Ashe had been behind bars since May 2009, when Roseburg police arrested him in connection with a fire in a post office trash can. Police said Ashe told them he wanted to burn down the post office because he was angry about troops being sent to Iraq and Afghanistan.

He was convicted of arson last year and released early Tuesday.

Eugene police Officer Kirk Farley was sitting in his patrol car outside a Home Federal Bank branch on Tuesday when Ashe robbed it. Farley made the arrest.

An FBI court affidavit says Ashe has confessed to the bank robbery. It wasn’t immediately known if he has an attorney.

Embarrassing ‘SHCOOL’ sign replaced in NYC

NEW YORK

An embarrassing misspelling of “school” is gone from the street outside a New York City school building.

Utility workers used heavy machinery to ground up the wrongly placed “H” and “C” in the “SHCOOL X-NG” sign on Tuesday.

The correction was made a day after the New York Post reported the spelling error.

The words were created with industrial “textured tape” that permanently sticks to the asphalt.

Con Ed told the Post (http://nyp.st/A41ber ) that the blunder occurred when a contractor ripped up the street for utility work and replaced the existing markings.

It says the mistake outside the Lower East Side building that houses three schools had been there since July 2010.

Police seek toothless woman in western Pa. bank robbery

WAYNESBURG, Pa.

Police say a woman who robbed a southwestern Pennsylvania bank may not have had a gun and almost certainly didn’t have any teeth.

Waynesburg police tell the Observer-Reporter (http://bit.ly/xG45GF ) newspaper of Washington, Pa. that surveillance video strongly suggests the woman who robbed the First National Bank about 5 p.m. on Friday has no teeth and wasn’t wearing dentures at the time.

Police Chief Tim Hawfield tells the newspaper “her lower face appears to be collapsed on itself.”

Police believe the woman is about 50 years old and say she is short, somewhere between 5 feet and 5 feet 4 in inches tall.

They say she claimed to have a gun when she handed a teller a note demanding money, but never actually flashed the weapon.

Waynesburg is about 40 miles south of Pittsburgh.

Associated Press